A question and answer on TV, broadcast between the two shores of the ocean within a few hours, as had not been seen even at the time of the revolt of the unfortunate Lady Diana.
The challenge at the Windsor house between the new rebels Harry and Meghan and the rest of the dynasty overflows onto the small screens of half the world;
and even if
Her Majesty the Queen, from the height of her 94 years and over six decades on the throne, shows that she wants to sovereignly ignore the controversies of the dreaded two-hour interview-event with the American CBS of the Dukes of Sussex
(value 6 million dollars), his voice does not fail to overlap in
an intervention, broadcast by the BBC just a few hours earlier, as a sort of indirect lesson on the importance of "dedication to duty"
.
While under the counter
the court already seems to be meditating on revenge,
according to the usual ready-to-use deep gorges near the palace.
The wait for a Sunday of reckoning is all focused on prime time USA, where the reprobate couple has now moved on a permanent basis after last year's sensational break with the Royal Family, confirmed without second thoughts a few weeks ago.
And where he recorded the river interview granted to the hugely popular African American anchorwoman Oprah Winfrey.
An interview that Elizabeth II did not want to be recorded, the anonymous sources on duty to the Sunday Times (complete with immediate alignment of Prime Minister Boris Johnson) have blurted out.
Not without adding, however, that the Buckingham Palace communication machine is still "ready for retaliation", with new, alleged "revelations about the behavior" of the Sussexes where the dukes went too far in the attacks and recriminations against the monarchy and its apparatuses, after the explosive advances in which Meghan has already openly accused the dynasty ("the Firm", or firm, in colloquial language) of spreading "falsehoods" on their behalf: in the name of instrumental and punitive reasons that the code warning delivered on Sunday by Rupert Murdoch seems to be done on purpose to confirm.
On the other hand, the crossed messages remain cold and hardly or not at all conciliatory
, while the delayed suspicion of alleged "bullying" of former court collaborators exhumed days ago after almost 3 years already hangs on the Markle.
At the level of unofficial sources, in the meantime from London it is evident how the queen is concentrated in these hours with the usual diligence only on her institutional tasks;
as well as, of course, on the health of Prince Consort Philip, who was hospitalized for almost a hundred years after a minor heart surgery;
while from the voice of His Majesty the tones are decidedly more nuanced and detached, although if you want to try to read between the lines a few strokes can be grasped.
The occasion is that of the program entrusted to the BBC to start the annual celebrations of the Commonwealth in which the crown offers the most cosmopolitan, interracial image of itself, open to the problems of today: from the pandemic threat, to that of climate change, from women's rights, public health and mental health.
A display of colors, music, commitments for the future of the planet in which the elderly sovereign appeared in remote connection with Westminster Abbey, home to a traditional solemn liturgy canceled this year due to the Covid cause, flanked by a exceptional parterre of the leaders of the family determined to give the image of a common front.
An appointment interwoven with serious and dialoguing interventions and reflections by the heir to the throne Charles, his wife Camilla, Prince William (older brother apparently increasingly distant from Harry) and his wife Kate, as well as other royals who remained faithful to the cause, to the status, to those official commitments that the Sussexes have instead abandoned.
The day, explains the queen from the isolation of Windsor Castle, lends itself "to reflection as in no other" time, given the scenario of the pandemic.
Scenario in which "we have seen moving examples of courage and selfless dedication to duty witnessed in all nations and territories" of the former empire, he urges.
And if someone's ears ring, it might not be by accident.
(HANDLE).
